Law Decoded: Independence Day Sees Challenges to Privacy, Property and Security, June 26–July 3

On the same day, new changes to the Russian Constitution, including those that may allow Putin to stay in power for another 16 years, take effect. The court’s reasoning was that Bitcoin, lacking legal status in the Russian Federation, does not constitute property.

Indeed, one of the many controversies surrounding the public voter over Putin’s changes to the Russian constitution was that the blockchain-based platform’s encryption was weak enough to allow voters and third-parties access. More directly relevant to crypto, a U.S. court recently upheld the right to search Coinbase’s transaction records in a case centered on child pornography, arguing that access to this third-party information is well within the government’s purview.

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